Additionally, in regards to speaking on behalf of these groups - I would recommend looking into the limitations and reporting requirements for political lobbying for traditional 501(c)(3)s like Sudo Room & BAPS -before proceeding too far, especially with the status pending.eddan,
thank you for this! i will come to sudo tonight. Is the meeting at 6:30, or what is the time?
What is needed are white papers against the dac, that set out clearly the actual scope of the dac and stake out our position against it in point-by-point terms at the level of moral-political logic. Does anything like that exist?Showing up at public comment at council meetings is fine, but frankly at the same time the attitudes of some at public comment also has had a tendency to just piss off the various people in govt who are also against the dac and mostly ignore the content. These people, various aides and such, who really are on our side, need be able to articulate arguments against the dac in a noncombative manner, that can be framed in a language that isnt polemical or too emotional but simply sensible.Im going to start a working group / class out of baps on this also -best,daviddavid
On Wednesday, January 22, 2014, eddan.com <eddan@sudoroom.tv> wrote:Hi David & Sudo folk -Just wanted to remind folks that the Oakland Privacy Working Group (meeting tonight at Sudo Room) has been trying to coordinate a robust and effective response to the Oakland DAC funding in this crucial several week window at the City Council.It is of course important for everyone who's willing to work to try and stop this to do what they can. It might be helpful though to make sure coordination is taking place so that one part of our collective effort isn't seen as legitimizing a process we are trying to shut down by supporting it through fixing it.Subscription to the listserv is at oaklandprivacyworkinggroup-subscribe@lists.riseup.net. It would also be great if you could support the petition at http://www.change.org/petitions/the-mayor-and-city-council-of-oakland-ca-don-t-sell-out-the-people-of-oakland-to-the-department-of-homeland-security-don-t-vote-to-fund-the-domain-awareness-center and continue spreading the word.For those interested, there is also a meeting of the League of Women Voters on this topic tonight (http://www.lwvoakland.org/VOTER-January-2014.html). There will also be an event of relevant interest in Berkeley tomorrow night (https://www.eff.org/event/nsa-surveillance-and-our-almost-orwellian-state).-EddanOn Tuesday, January 21, 2014 at 6:55 PM, David Keenan wrote:
Hey guys,a friend of mine who works for the ci